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Revision as of 15:08, 20 June 2016

Drosera tracyi
Drosera tracyi KDSP.jpg
Photo by Katelin Pearson
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Nepenthales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Species: D. tracyi
Binomial name
Drosera tracyi
(Diels) Macfarl.

Common name: Tracy's sundew

Taxonomic notes

Drosera tracyi is often considered a synonym of Drosera filiformis. The Plant List recognizes Drosera tracyi as a synonym of Drosera filiformis var. tracyi.

Description

Drosera tracyi is a carnivorous plant. A description of this species is provided in The Flora of North America.

Generally, for the Drosera genus, they are an "annual or a perennial, rosulate, scapose herbs. Leaves with tentacle-like, glandular trichomes, the glistening, sticky secretion of each gland contributing to the insect-catching function of the leaf, and to the common name. Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, 5-merous; sepals and petals persistent, enclosing the capsule; stamens 5; ovary syncarpous, superior, 1-locular. Capsule valvate, seeds minute." - Radford et al 1964.

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

Phenology

Seed dispersal

Fire ecology

Conservation and management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 516-7. Print.